John Rambo, antic boina verda, visitarà un antic company d'armes i rep la notícia que aquest ha mort com a conseqüència dels efectes de la guerra. Al cap de pocs dies, la policia deté Rambo per rodamón i s'acarnissa amb ell. Aleshores recorda les tortures que va patir al Vietnam i reacciona violentament.
Un pobre rodamón (Charles Chaplin) passa mil i un avatars per aconseguir diners i ajudar una pobra noia cega (Virginia Cherill) de la qual s'ha enamorat.
Extenuat pel frenètic ritme de la cadena de muntatge, un obrer metal·lúrgic acaba perdent la raó. Després de recuperar-se en un hospital, surt i és empresonat per participar en una manifestació en què es trobava per casualitat. A la presó, també sense pretendre-ho, ajuda a controlar un motí, gràcies a la qual cosa queda en llibertat. Un cop fora, reprèn la lluita per la supervivència en companyia d'una jove òrfena que coneix al carrer.
Últim film mut de Chaplin. El rodamón Charlot viatja amb un circ ambulant i s'enamora d'una dona genet que està enamorada d'un musculós trapezista. Mentrestant, li succeeixen mil i una peripècies.
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
Composed of three disturbingly sensual and terrifying short narratives, unified by the twin themes of sex and death.
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
After returning from a party, Angela finds herself locked in her house with two unknown women, while a homeless man lurks outside.
In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.